Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Ivan Shishkin, Christian Hilfgott Brand and Caspar David Friedrich. Two years crossing Kamchatka and eastern Siberia on dog sled and reindeer for a telegraph line that was abandoned before it was built. Kennan was twenty when he went; he later exposed the Siberian exile system and was banned from Russia for it. This edition is bound with 59 plates of painting by Friedrich, Aivazovsky, Church and Shishkin, dated 1725 to 1897.